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Cool characters : irony and American fiction / Lee Konstantinou.

By: Konstantinou, Lee [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016Description: 330 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674967885 (hbk.) :Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Irony in literature | Postmodernism (Literature) | Irony | Counterculture -- United States -- History | Politics and culture -- United States -- History | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 813.5'4'0918 Summary: Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of 'postirony.'
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of 'postirony.'

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